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PATENTED MAY 12, 1908f w. MAASS. AUTOGRAPHIG REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 4, 1907.

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entree srar ngs r n rnnr orrron WILLIAM MAASS, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER (0, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A COPARTNERSHIPI AUTOGRAPHED REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1908.

Application filed April 4, 1907. Serial No. 366,3i0.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM MAAss, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Cincinnati, county of Hamilton, State of Ohio, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Autographic Registers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to autographic registers in which paper is mounted to receive memoranda of sales, etc., the memoranda duplicated by means of carbon paper, and in which it is stamped with the name of the company, or other convenient data before it is removed from the casing and the slips contajping the memoranda severed from the ro s.

It is the object of my invention to provide an improved means of stamping the paper and to furnish a means of stamping and perforating the paper for filing purposes at one operation.

Referring to the drawings, in which like parts are indicated by similar reference letters, Figure 1 is a plan view of an autographic register embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation of the front part of the casing, the cover of the casing, however, being shown in section upon line 90-00 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an inverted plan view of the plate which carries the stamp, the knife edge and the perforating pins.

Referring to the parts: l/Vithin casing, A, is mounted two rolls of paper, from which the paper is led over a roll, a, within the case and then forward beneath the arms, 0/, a of the cover. Carbon paper is led from the cylinder, a between the two strips of paper, and at the forward edge of the box is located a stroke arm, A, for measuring the length of the paper pulled out at each operation. The parts thus far described are the same as described in Letters Patent of the United States No. 78878 granted to me and Charles Heinlein upon May 2, 1905.

Since the elements so far described form no part of my present invention, they are not described with more detail.

Casing, A, has a shelf, a, projecting from its forward edge. Beneath the shelf, a are brackets, (1 a, in which are journaled spools, B, B, for receiving a copying ribbon, 6. Ribbon, 5, passes from roll, B, up over the shelf, a and over the paper, C, C, and thence to the roll, B. Near the front of thecasing, A,

standards, D, D, are secured, in which a rod, (Z, is journaled. Rod, (Z, has secured to it a plate, d whose forward edge, d, is sharpened and upon whose lower face is secured astamp, d which may contain any desired data, such as the name of the house using the autographic register, the date, etc. Plate, CF, is provided with a handle, (i Rod, (Z, has torsion springs, d, d, secured to it and to the standards, D, D, and normally holding the stamp, d in contact with the ribbon. Near the forward edge of the plate, d are downwardly projecting pins, d, d which register with and project into perforations in the shelf, a in the normal position of the plate, (Z

The operation of the parts is as follows: After the memorandum has been written upon the face of the paper lying between the arms, a, c of the cover, plate, (1 is raised by grasping handle, d the forward edges of the paper are grasped together with the forward edge of'the stroke-arm, 0,, and drawn forward. The handle, d is released and the springs, (1 (1 cause the plate, 61 to flap down upon the shelf, a whereupon the stamp impinging upon the printing ribbon, b, prints the data upon the fresh end of the paper and the pins, 61, d perforate through both sheets of the paper. The projecting ends of the paper may then be severed by bringing them against'the cutting edge. It is seen that in this operation that the position of the ribbon and the stamp is such as to give a distinct mark upon the paper and that when the ribbon becomes worn it is readily shifted to present a fresh portion. The positioning of the pins upon the cutting plate not only forms a convenient means for perforating the paper for filing, but with them, the paper is steadied to insure a straight out by the cutting edge and likewise to keep the paper steady while a person is making memoranda upon the surface of the paper between the arms, a, a

That I claim is:

1. In an autographic register the combination of a case containing paper and having an eXit for the paper, a plate having a cutting edge for severing the paper and journaled at the eXit of the paper from the case, a stamp carried by the face of the plate which contacts with the paper and a ribbon passing over the paperbeneath the stamp.

2. In an autographic register the combination of a case containing paper and having an exit for the paper, a plate having an edge for severing the paper and journaled at the exit of the paper from the case, and pins projecting from the plate to perforate the paper.

3. In an autographic register the combination of a case containing paper and having an exit for the paper, a plate journaled at the exit of the paper, a stamp carried by the face of the plate which contacts with the paper, ribbon rolls mounted upon the case and a 10 ribbon mounted upon the rolls and passing over the paper in the path of the stamp.

WILLIAM MAASS. Witnesses:

WALTER F. MURRAY, AGNES MCCORMAGK. 

